For those currently in the marijuana industry

I'm doing a paper for college, a business research proposal on my Marijuana distribution company. What lights do you guys use to start, I know alot of hps lights are used in the industry, but what about kingbright that uses Samsung diodes. Would they be ideal to use for a company. How much space do you guys need? How many plants do you need? What is the best soil to use, is fox farm a good soil? What size pots? What do you guys need to produce per plant in order to get a healthy profit? How many employees do you average and what are there positions? What does daily operations look like, is it training, cloning/planting seeds, mixing nutrients with water and feeding plants every day (looking at agrotec system), de leafing, trimming/packaging/boxing and shipping, etc. How do you come up with a schedule we're you keep having a good amount of plants flowering and vegging in order to meet demand? How many rooms do you guys use for seedlings/clones, veg, flowering, and drying. How many plants fit per square feet under led's vs hps. Estimated square feet for each room. What is whole sale cost per ounce? Anything I missed? I am currently doing my research as we speak through other bodies of knowledge such as Google and YouTube. If you business men could answer some of my questions/provide some important key components I missed, that would be much appreciated.

Mersh strains, no training, 1000 watters that never get adjusted, vertical integration. Instagram.


That about covers it

LinguaPeel said:

Mersh strains, no training, 1000 watters that never get adjusted, vertical integration. Instagram.


That about covers it

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Would a kingbright 600w work? I'm kind of interested in the led's since they are low in heat output, as well as an energy saver. Would you still suggest a 1,000 watt I assume to be an hps. I heard with a 600 watt hps you are expected to get 300 grams and with led's your aiming for 1.5 grams a watt. Will that be a bad idea, or could it still work? What soil and nutes you use as well

Ayokiwi717 said:

Would a kingbright 600w work? I'm kind of interested in the led's since they are low in heat output, as well as an energy saver. Would you still suggest a 1,000 watt I assume to be an hps. I heard with a 600 watt hps you are expected to get 300 grams and with led's your aiming for 1.5 grams a watt. Will that be a bad idea, or could it still work? What soil and nutes you use as well

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The energy savings from using LED come more from reduced cooling costs. They’re starting to come out with 1000w+ LEDs now. I’ve seen some commercial grows that use kingbright equivalents from Alibaba but most I’ve seen using LEDs use fluence or gavita. Warranty support on alibaba lights doesn’t really exist. If a light breaks you have to ship it back from China on your dime and then they may or may not send a replacement. If you run alibaba lights it would be advisable to have spares in hand.

Everything is relative. Mostly i see people just fill up as much space as they have and improve as they go.

The standard right now seems to be Gavita DE (or equivalent) or Strip Leds if you wanna be long term and efficient.
Tasks involve all of those you mentioned, and usually 2 people can take care of hundreds if not thousands of plants as long as they know what they're doing. The jobs aren't labor intensive, but time consuming.

There's a lot of automation involved, other than for spraying and stuff like taking cuttings.

Also think of 1 room per purpose... ie: clone, veg, flower, dry, trim, package, sell... since they all need different environmental conditions.
Also everyone is a pro, everyone knows more than the hill billy next door, so they all have the million dollar secret

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Ayokiwi717 said:

Would a kingbright 600w work? I'm kind of interested in the led's since they are low in heat output, as well as an energy saver. Would you still suggest a 1,000 watt I assume to be an hps. I heard with a 600 watt hps you are expected to get 300 grams and with led's your aiming for 1.5 grams a watt. Will that be a bad idea, or could it still work? What soil and nutes you use as well

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Most commercial grows don’t use China lights. It’s either Gavita DE HPS or if using LED then Gavita, Fluence, HLG, or Timber. Some use 315w CMH on 2-3 tiered systems.

300g per 600w is terrible regardless of the kind of light. If you aren’t hitting at least 1 GPW you are losing money.

Most commercial grows are using soil-less inert mediums such as coco, rockwool, Promix, etc. and using salt based nutrients on an automated dosing system such as a Dosatron. No hand mixing nutes or hand watering.

They have a room for every task as mentioned above and multiple flower rooms on different schedules so they are constantly harvesting.

NukaKola said:

Most commercial grows don’t use China lights. It’s either Gavita DE HPS or if using LED then Gavita, Fluence, HLG, or Timber. Some use 315w CMH on 2-3 tiered systems.

300g per 600w is terrible regardless of the kind of light. If you aren’t hitting at least 1 GPW you are losing money.

Most commercial grows are using soil-less inert mediums such as coco, rockwool, Promix, etc. and using salt based nutrients on an automated dosing system such as a Dosatron. No hand mixing nutes or hand watering.

They have a room for every task as mentioned above and multiple flower rooms on different schedules so they are constantly harvesting.

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How do they plan a schedule for harvesting? Is it every week? What is considered a small cultivation, what is the number of plants you started with.

Ayokiwi717 said:

How do they plan a schedule for harvesting? Is it every week? What is considered a small cultivation, what is the number of plants you started with.

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It all depends. Typical commercial cultivation uses fast flowering strains (around 8 weeks). If you have two flowering rooms, then harvest once a month, four rooms then every two weeks and so on.

You could have trays on different schedules in the same room but that’s not ideal since it is easier to strip down and clean an entire room after each harvest.

Number of plants is all dependent on lighting, growing style, veg time, pot size, etc. It’s common to run many plants in small containers for reduced veg times so overall cycles are shorter. It is a must to use clones.